20th Century Fox is holding an open casting call in New York for Steven Spielberg’s musical West Side Story.
Tony Kushner, who also wrote Munich and Lincoln for Spielberg, is actively working on the script for West Side Story.
West Side Story naturally takes place in New York’s Upper West Side and revolves around two warring gangs: Puerto Rican gang The Sharks and white gang The Jets.
The original stage musical West Side Story, a story about warring gangs in 1950s New York and loose retelling of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, premiered on Broadway in 1957 and was adapted into a Best Picture Oscar-winning movie four years later.